península
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,383
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
península is aPortuguesenoun. It means: porção de terra cercada de águas por todos os lados, com exceção de um, por onde mantém ligação com o continente Pronounced /pɨ.ˈnĩ.su.lɐ/. It ranks #9,383 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | península |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈnĩ.su.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for península is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨ.ˈnĩ.su.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,383 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for península, with forms such as "epnínsula", "pennínsula", and "pennísula". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is península, spelled P-E-N-Í-N-S-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1porção de terra cercada de águas por todos os lados, com exceção de um, por onde mantém ligação com o continente
- 2quersoneso
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnínsula,pennínsula,pennísula,penínnsula,penínslua,penínssula,penínsual,penínsulla,penínusla,penísnula,peínnsula,pneínsula,ppenínsula
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Misspelling Variants of "península"
Frequency rank: #9,383 in Portuguese
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